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| 1e4e6 Octoglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4291 days ago 1013 posts - 1588 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Dutch, Swedish, Italian Studies: German, Danish, Russian, Catalan | Message 73 of 134 24 May 2014 at 12:01am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I guess that what I mean is that in this video about
Danish, the comments (which I usually try not to read), one can see things about how Anglophones have problems with other languages, but everyone finds English easy, and related ideas, like Anglophones, especially USA, UK, Australia, seem to be the most monolingual and have problems even if they try, but that Anglophones' language is so easy that it can just be absorbed like UV rays from sunlight. I agree that the accent seems quite strange, but the comments seem to revolve around that the accent for this Danish reading is bad, whilst people who learn English can perfect their accents to near-native level and master English quickly. Edited by 1e4e6 on 24 May 2014 at 12:34am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4708 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 74 of 134 24 May 2014 at 12:40am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Prove it. This is not my experience at all with any of my students. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6598 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 75 of 134 24 May 2014 at 12:47am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Then how about either learning or leaving it alone? I'm as tired of your complaining as you are tired of those 1-5% Europeans who say nasty things about English (and I'm being generous with 5%). Edited by Serpent on 24 May 2014 at 12:49am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6598 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 76 of 134 24 May 2014 at 12:52am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Oh god please no. No need to bring this ridiculous stuff to HTLAL when it's a tiny minority that thinks so (if they even do, and aren't just trolling deliberately). Edited by Serpent on 24 May 2014 at 12:54am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4708 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 77 of 134 24 May 2014 at 12:53am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Don't worry, he is incapable of it. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| tastyonions Triglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/UIdChYRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4666 days ago 1044 posts - 1823 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: Italian | Message 78 of 134 24 May 2014 at 2:06am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Hahaha, what a freakin' joke. Most of the time you can suss out someone trying for a standard American accent just by asking them to pronounce the word "fun." :-) On the other hand, I have yet to meet these alleged arrogant Europeans, thankfully. Edited by tastyonions on 24 May 2014 at 1:03pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Stolan Senior Member United States Joined 4033 days ago 274 posts - 368 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Thai, Lowland Scots Studies: Arabic (classical), Cantonese | Message 79 of 134 24 May 2014 at 4:45am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Are you saying none of the things I saw were never written over the internet? I met a guy who said exactly that quote I said, a foreign exchange student back when I was in my junior year of high school. That has what spurred me to get deeper into linguistic structure and evolution rather than be content with Spanish. I have provided evidence , nothing I have said has been challenged with counter arguments. Nobody took a claim I made and attempted to disproved it. Forgive my attitude, but I have gone a bit "mad" from learning about so many different types of grammars in the world and not finding any answers. Edited by Stolan on 24 May 2014 at 5:12am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5131 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 80 of 134 24 May 2014 at 5:47am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Call me sheltered, but I've never once met anyone that thought that way regarding English.
Ah, well there it is. High School, where worldly knowledge runs rampant. R. == 5 persons have voted this message useful |
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